MDUSD’s Golden Ticket Bicycle Giveaway

Press release from the Mt. Diablo Unified School District:

December 11, 2020

For Immediate Release: Concord, CA—Mt. Diablo Unified School District is announcing a Golden Ticket Bicycle Giveaway this holiday season as a good-deed effort to raise awareness about the district’s free meal distribution routes. The district’s bus drivers run 15 free-meal delivery routes throughout the area on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. MDUSD’s cheery message to district families today said this:

Happy Holidays from MDUSD to you! On December 16, we are giving away brand new bicycles to 15 lucky MDUSD students. Here's how it will work—a special Golden Ticket will be in one meal bag for each of the 15 buses distributing free meals on that day of service. If a student's meal bag has a Golden Ticket, they have won, and will be asked to pick up their new bicycle on Monday, December 21, 2020. There are 15 Golden Tickets for the 15 distribution routes that we run, so every route will have one bicycle winner. Your free meal could have a Golden Ticket inside! Mark your calendars for December 16 and learn about our meal distribution routes nearest you. This idea is thanks to our Transportation and Food & Nutrition Services Department leaders Cris 'Cringle' Lepe and Dominic 'the Saint' Machi. They may forgive me for the nicknames later. Our Transportation Department staff kindly pooled together to purchase one bicycle and helmet, while the other bicycles were a donation redeemed from a national vendor program Cool School Cafe. Walmart and the Transportation Sunshine Club have also donated helmets for each bicycle winner. Special thanks to MDUSD bus driver Ron 'the Elf' Rivett, who assembled the bicycles—15 Titan Tomcat Bicycles, to be precise.

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